Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Animal Health / January 2007

I live in the UK and I recently moved into a house which had 1 Dog and
2 Cats. About a week after I moved I noticed that I was getting lots of
Flea bites and my Rabbit was scratching as well. We have powdered the
house with Diatomaceous earth and we put Advantage 40 by Bayer on our

Hi.  I have a 6 year old Gray Domestic Short Hair cat that has always
been an indoor cat.  He was diagnosed with cancer (lymphoma) and after
going through surgery twice to remove it, I found out he has
cryptococcosis.  I have been treating him for this for almost 3 months,

The Manual is deceptive as it has a 'Freudian slip' as it's premises.
Jerry Howe takes license to do as he pleases on these forums and that
is attack People and slander.
It is 100% opposite of what he Peddles in his non Manual  where the

Tony
Nottingham
England
21 January 2007

I have an elderly dog on Torbutrol but it's costing me around $100 a
month now. Is there anything similar to it but cheaper?

We recently had our family cat put to sleep; she was 21, and had lost
the ability to groom herself several years ago, along with poor
digestive function, etc. etc. We were able to have the vet come to our
house with an assistant, and after explaining things to us, our cat was

Hi to all,
the message is quite long so I'll try to be as schematic as possible, I
just say here that I got 3 different diagnosis from 3 veterinaries: I
would like to have your opinion/suggestion.

We have a baby rubber who is about a year old.  We have had her for two
months.  We cannot get her to eat any pinkie mice.  We have tried several
times.  The person we got her from was been very helpful and giving us
advice on habitat and environment that are conducive to getting ...

One of my cats, a nine year old male, short hair domestic recently
stopped eating. I've got a good vet that we really like, so we took him
in in hopes of figuring out what was wrong. Unfortunately he's
completely stumped by the cat's behavior. He's done multiple x-rays,

Hi, I am hoping from some input. I have been reading a lot of the posts
on this board.  Our baby, Shadow,  just turned 1 yr old 1 week ago.  He
is a full bred Siberian husky who has grand mal seizures that last
anywhere from 3-7 minutes.  At 9 months of age he had his first

What do you all think of this?
http://www.zimfamilycockers.com/EarCleaner.html

I am on the Advisory Committee for a group that trains Therapy Dogs. As
of now, the organization requires up to date vaccinations, but many,
many great dogs are Titred, and are excluded from the Therapy Dog
Program, mine included.

Hello, My dog has something protruding out of her skin on the tail.
Its close to the end of her docked tail, on bottom side of her tail.
She is a three year old Doberman.  The biggest one is in the shape of
rice, has a silvery semi-transparent color and is about 4mm long.   The

Our diabetic dog normally has Insuvet Lente but on two occasions in the last
three months the vet has been unable to obtain this insulin and has provided
prescriptions for Hypurin Bovine Lente. We have managed to obtain Hypurin
Bovine Lente from supermarket pharmacies (with ...

My cat has been lethargic and anorexic; he vomits about every other
day.
His feces often times (not always) smell like feces and vomit, they
have a very heavy, dull, pungent smell (this is recent) - sometimes